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Signing a contract with China is like, ascribing to the boiling frog effect; a fable describing a frog being boiled alive slowly. If you drop a frog suddenly into boiling water, it will jump...
The government of Uganda is now at risk of losing its main state assets to China over unpaid huge increasing Chinese loans to Uganda . But according to Ugandan government, the growing debt is sustainable, and...
Kenya is home to a number of iconic animals ranging from elephants and rhinoceros to giraffes, leopards and cheetahs. Elephants and rhinoceros are among the most threatened, as their tusks and horns make them...
A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the “Ivory Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants, weighing nearly 2 tonnes,...
By: Oxpeckers (Environmental Journalism) Donkey smugglers are taking advantage of cross-border criminal networks to meet the growing demand for hides. Oscar Nkala investigates. In the crime-ridden borderlands where Zimbabwe and South Africa meet, donkeys have been...
In a new tweet the Chinese Exim Bank clarifies that the bank now has full control over Kenneth Kaunda Airport, Zambia’s main broadcast cooperation and the ZESCO Power plant. These Chinese take-overs are a...
Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight. Sky News investigated the Katanga mines and found Dorsen, 8, and Monica, 4 The pair...
While massive Chinese overfishing is a serious threat to food security in Africa, the Chinese government seduced five African countries to take another huge loan. In trade for that, China will gain its farming...
Former president Robert Mugabe has condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa for leasing anything visible in Zimbabwe to China. Mugabe has urged Zimbabwe leaders to be considerate when handling national resources as failure to do that...
The owner of a Chinese restaurant in Nairobi, Kenya has been arrested following an uproar over its policy of banning African customers at night, according to reports. Owner Zhao Yang was arrested for operating...
RUIRU, Kenya — Before last year, Richard Ochieng’, 26, could not recall experiencing racism firsthand. Not while growing up as an orphan in his village near Lake Victoria where everybody was, like him, black....
‘Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people’. It’s a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight...
Africa might not be changing its role in the world anytime soon if its young people are not at the centre of the continent’s development agenda. While China plays a vital role in developing...
Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo slammed two Chinese investors who were captured on camera fighting a minister in Uganda. Governor Kabogo noted that if the behaviour by investors from China is not tamed, Africa will end up...